Book: 1 Timothy

The Noble Task 1 Tim 3 – Study Guide

The Noble Task

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1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9; 1 Peter 5:1-5

The Text

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. ² Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not …

THE TEXT:

Our text for today is 1 Timothy 6:20-21. These are God’s Words.

²⁰ O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” ²¹ for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.

Grace be with you.

SUMMARY OF THE TEXT

Paul’s final appeal includes both a positive and negative command. First, Timothy must keep safe the deposit that Paul has made …

INTRO

A survey of the Bible’s teaching on wealth would take considerably more time than we have this morning. So, let me hit the tops of the waves for you.

In the beginning, God gave Adam and Eve dominion over the entire earth. They were the king and queen of the planet, acting as God’s vice regents. (Genesis 1, 2)

When God delivered Israel out of Egypt, he gave them Canaan and promised to bless …

THE TEXT:

Our text for today is 1 Timothy 5:1-16. These are God’s Words.

³ If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, ⁴ he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, ⁵ and constant friction among …

THE TEXT:

Our text for today is 1 Timothy 5:1-16. These are God’s Words.

¹⁹ Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁰ As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear. ²¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep …

THE TEXT:

Our text for today is 1 Timothy 5:1-16. These are God’s Words.

5 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, ² older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

³ Honor widows who are truly widows. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make …

INTRODUCTION:

That’s the most glorious thing you have ever seen?

IN this passage, Paul says the most glorious thing we’ll ever see in this earthly life, is the church.

BRIDGE THE GAP/CONTEXT:

1 Timothy 3:14-16

This is the purpose of the entire book. Why does Paul care so much about church order? Why should we care so much about church order? 

Because of:

What the church is.

What …

THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH

The Household of God

1 Timothy 3:8-13

INTRODUCTION:

In 1991, in the tiny town of New Berlin, in upstate NYC, a young physician named Bill Thomas performed an experiment. He was 31 years old and had just taken a new job as a medical director of Chase Memorial Nursing Home with 80 severely disabled elderly residents, many with Alzheimer’s and cognitive disabilities.

His aim, he said, was to attack what …

INTRODUCTION:

1983 – 43 people meet in the home of Jim & Ruth McDowall for the first meeting of what would become Lake Wylie Baptist Church. Jimmy Ezell is affirmed as the pastor. October 9^th, the church is constituted with 33 charter members.

1984 – Having rotated through member homes for worship, Lake Wylie Baptist find its first permanent home in the offices of The Realty Plantation in Tega Cay.

1984 – On …